2010, ISBN: 0230221645

[EAN: 9780230221642], Near Fine, [PU: Palgrave Macmillan], 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY EUROPE EXHIBITIONS FRANCO BRITISH 20TH 1900 EXPOSITION AFRICA ALT-BERLIN ARBEITSAUSSCHUSS ARCHITEC… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780230221642], Near Fine, [PU: Palgrave Macmillan], 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY EUROPE EXHIBITIONS FRANCO BRITISH 20TH 1900 EXPOSITION AFRICA ALT-BERLIN ARBEITSAUSSCHUSS ARCHITECTS ARCHITECTURAL ARTS ATTRACTION AUSSTELLUNG AUSSTELLUNGSWESEN BERLINER GEWERBEAUSSTELLUNG 1896 BRITAIN EMPIRE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS CAPITAL CENTRAL CHAMP DE MARS CITY’S CLOU COLONIAL SECTION CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT CRITICS CRYSTAL PALACE CULTURAL DEBATE DEUTSCHEN DISPLAY EARL’S COURT EIFFEL TOWER STADIUM ENTIRE EXHIBITION’S EXHIBITIONARY COLONIALE INTERNATIONALE OF FEATURE FIN SIÈCLE FLIP FLAP FRANÇAISES FRANCE FRENCH GEORG SIMMEL GERMAN GEWERBE GLOBAL GOVERNMENT PAVILION HELD HISTORICAL IBID IMPERIAL IMRE KIRALFY INDIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS KAUFLEUTE UND INDUSTRIELLER KIRALFY'S KOLONIALAUSSTELLUNG L’EXPOSITION LATER MEDIUM METROPOLIS MFHUG MODERN MUSEUM OFFICIAL GUIDE ORGANIZED PALAIS PARIS PARISIAN UNIVERSELLE PARTICIPATION REPRESENTATION SHEPHERD'S BUSH SOURCE SPACE SPATIAL SPECTACLE STRUCTURE TION TNA BT TOUR TRADE TREPTOWER PARK TROCADÉRO URBAN VENUE VILLAGE VINCENNES VISITORS WELTAUSSTELLUNG WEMBLEY WHITE CITY WORLD WORLD’S FAIRS ADVERTISEMENTS APPROPRIATION AUDIENCE GERMANY AUTHENTICITY CREATION BERLIN GREAT PAVILIONS BRUSSELS BELGIUM CHILDREN COMMERCE CONSUMPTION CRITICISM EDUCATION ENGINEERS MODERNITY MAPS NETWORKS PROGRESS TRANSIENCE PLANNING, Jacket, Hardcover, xvii + 398pp + 8 pages of glossy colour plates, b&w images in text, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In likewise dust jacket. -- Contents: 1. Introduction: How to Read an Exposition [Spaces of modernity; 1851 ff.; The rise of exposition studies; Modus procedendi]; 2. Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung [Why never in Germany?; Labor, water and the site; Pleasures of the metropolis; Wilhelm II versus Georg Simmel]; 3. Paris 1900: The Exposition Universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis [Queen city of expositions; Tabula rasa; Polynuclear or clou-less?; An exposition in 1911?]; 4. London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition [A superman in the exhibition world; Dazzling whiteness; 'Flip-Flap' versus 'native villages'; Seeing national beauty]; 5. Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis [Setting the stage; The eighth wonder of the world; The heart of the heart of the heart; Signs of dissolution; Fact and fancy]; 6. Vincennes 1931: The Exposition Coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity [Paris versus Marseilles; Emplacement; Dream city; The truth about the colonies]; 7. Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium [Peace, progress, prosperity; Exhibition fatigue; Counter-reactions, institutional and international; Sites, cities, sights; Theorizing European exposition practices]; Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition; Appendix [National and international expositions, 1750-1951, with an emphasis on Western Europe; Sites, clous and residuals, 1851-1951; Dramatis personae; National exhibitions committees and international treatises; Georg Simmel, Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung/The Berlin Trade Exhibition (1896)]; Notes; Bibliography; Index -- "Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.", Books<